"You do know--for I told you yesterday--how under the shelter of this _hateful_ game system Westall made Kurd's life a burden to him when he was a young man--how he had begun to bully him again this past year.

We had the same sort of dispute the other day about that murder in Ireland.

You were shocked that I would not condemn the Moonlighters who had shot their landlord from behind a hedge, as you did.

You said the man had tried to do his duty, and that the murder was brutal and unprovoked.

But I thought of the _system_--of the _memories_ in the minds of the murderers.